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mankind , and still less in my observations upon the existing portion , I ever met with any thing sp unostentatiously beautiful ! Indisputably , the firm believers in the gospel have ^ grea | advantage over ail others , for this

simple reason , that if true , they will have their reward hereafter , and if iSeife he no hereafter , they can be but with the infidel in his eternal sleep , having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life / without disappointment , since ( at the worst for

them ) * out of nothing—nothing can arise / not even sorrow ! put $ man ' s creed does not depend upon himself . Who can say , I wilt believe this * thsrt , or the other , and least bi ail that whieh he least can comprehend ? I iiave , however , observed , that tho ^ wba & $ ve begiiji life with extreme

faith , have in the end greatly narrowed it , a ^ GhiJlingworth , Clarke , ( who ended us an Arian , ) Bayle and Gibbon , ( once a Catholic , ) and some others ; while , on the other hand , nothing is ~ more common than for the early sceptic t $ ^ njd ill a firjj ? ] t > £ lief lik e tj ^ and iti rlc

Manpt ^ Henry e WMte , JBi * $ my business is to acknowledge youf letter , and nojt to make a 4 isser-^ tiWf I w qW % § d to yoijfc for your good $ 4 § b ££ , aiuj more than pbligeij by the extract from the papers of the beloved object whose qualifies you have sp vyell described in a few words .

so well explained and deeply felt the doctrines of religion , will excuse the error which led me to believe him its minister /* Upon this characteristically * n 1 teresting epistle of Lord Byro ^ , Mr . Sheppard wakes sereral appropriate reflections ; for which I refer to hit

work ; wMlst the following parajjraph is deserving transcription , being fraught with the divine spirit of charity : * Ip tercessions I cannot doubt had long been anxiously offered on liis behalf , at least by relativesand some of these

, in the blessed spirit of Christian j / piL giveness | others , as the preceding f ages affectingly shew , by ope unnownXo him , from the pure promptings of a Christian solicitude for his

welfare , enhanced by his % e gifts and high responsibility . Till the heavenly records of Christian charity shall be at last unrolled , we know not what more and si m ilar petitions may

have been poured from hearts that responded to his geniu ? and deplore ! its aberrations 1 Nor can ^ ny prqnounce till after € tjie judgn ^ eivtr isi set and the books are ooehed . ' ' that ( t ]» p « ^ and the books are openedthathese

, Were ultimately and altogether &se-Jess . " * It may not be unwprthv of observation , that Loud Bvkon had in jtip priginal manuscript \ 6 f " hi $ Chjlye Harold s Mlgriiniage this offen ^ iye stanza respecting a future state off being *—